Taking place these days in the fascinating setting of the Costa dei Trabocchi, the second edition of the Festival of the Sea, a cultural review of arts and performances. Started on July 18, it offers the city of Ortona 10 days of shows and meetings of theater, music, literature, performances and art installations, involving a total of more than 20 guests from all over Italy.
There were many scheduled events located in 4 different locations between Theater Square, Cinema Auditorium Zambra, Spazio De Lectis and Kairós delle Arti that are hosting art in all its forms: Theater, Cinema, Literature, Painting, Design, Music. The first evening of the Festival featured actor and director Elio Germano (David di Donatello Award 2024), on stage with the show “Il sogno di una cosa” by Pier Paolo Pasolini; this was followed by shows and performances by actor Vincenzo Ferrera, singer Mille, and artistic director Dario Iubatti (who was awarded the Honorary Book Award 2024 for the occasion), not to mention a space for children with acrobatic Clowning shows.
The event will conclude on Saturday, July 27, and has three more evenings scheduled at the Zambra Cinema Auditorium:
- Tonight, July 25, Niccolò Fettarappa brings to the stage “Pocket Apocalypse,” a heroic one-act play that expresses the despair of an excluded generation of young people who are without prospects; at the center of the story is a young recent college graduate accompanied by a bizarre Angel of the Apocalypse, who roams the streets of the city announcing the imminent end of the world.
- On Friday, July 26, at 9 p.m., Paolo Rossi offers his show Operaccia satirica, a reading of the great literary classics that are transformed into funny compositions, episodes “stolen” from lived life and from his personal repertoire then reworked and transformed into comic poems that, thanks to musical accompaniment, turn into a popular ditty;
- Instead, Saturday at 9 p.m. will be the final night, with a concert by X Factor 2023 finalist Il Solito Dandy.
Also scheduled for Saturday and Sunday is a Paolo Rossi Workshop featuring a no-limits theater workshop in which all theater lovers can participate and for which no training is required.
A festival created to promote and disseminate culture in the form of entertainment and which, in just one year, has doubled its numbers and is increasingly becoming a landmark of the cultural scene not only in Abruzzo.
An appointment that is also gaining solidity thanks to the support of Toto Holding, the large business entity with its heart in Abruzzo and who cares about Abruzzo.
